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  1. Re: Too little credit on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    He probably had a stopover at Heathrow once and saw a few there.

  2. That doesn't sound very agile!

  3. Re:Too little credit on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    deciding what deal they were going to try to negotiate and getting Parliament to approve it before triggering Article 50 would have been a very good idea, and avoided this crisis.

    Can't you see the problem with that? Froth froth will of the people froth froth get behind the leader froth froth just get on with it froth froth.

    On the other hand, that's pretty much the current situation.

    How's the shelling?

  4. Re:Too little credit on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 2

    leaving the EU is objectively a better decision than staying, from an economic, cultural, and game-theory point of view.

    Economically? So why the are the overwhelming majority of businesses and unions remainers?
    Game theory? That was an attempt to look smart, was it? It failed.

    But mostly, the argument that "not enough correct information got out" and "people would have chosen differently with better information" is completely false.

    How do you know? Plenty were swayed by the money for the NHS slogan on the bus, this was admitted to be false before the count was even finished.

    Making them "not scared" by talking or presenting information or reasoning simply won't work. You can only make people "not scared" by making them safer.

    Not true. People's perception of risks is often wildly wrong. Though some people also don't seem to grok the difference.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Take your country, look at gun ownership. You think it makes you safer. And yet you're more likely to be killed by a gun than someone living in Ireland during the troubles.

    No one will admit that the UK could voluntarily implement all the agreements it currently has with the EU - such as unrestricted travel between nations [...] different-culture people are everywhere.

    Those things sort of contradict each other, don't they? No point chucking all the Polackomanians out if they can just come back, is there?

  5. Re:Too little credit on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware the UK even had dentists.

    (inb4 the Americans)

  6. Re:Crap software on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    These large trade deals are worth a lot of money.

    Yes, but to who? (looks around nervously).

  7. Re: Open to abuse on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson still haven't been taken into a dark passage to get beaten the hell out of them.

    Because nobody can find them. Farage was trying to get Trump to give him a job as an ambassador, wasn't he?

  8. old fashion way on Cringely Pans Self-Driving Car Hype, Says They're Years Away (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "old fashioned way"? Silly old fart.

  9. Re:From the Article on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    It was obvious from the title and the author that it was going to be content-free.

  10. How should an accountant know if a bill is legitimate or not?

    Ask three questions:

    De we know these assholes? - Look for a vendor master.
    Did we order this shit? - Look for a purchase order.
    Did we get this shit? - Inventory records.

    If any of the answers is in the negative, it goes in he big round file.

  11. Re:And you want government managing healthcare? on FEMA Data Breach Hits 2.5 Million Disaster Survivors (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    And yet every country with an economy that's advanced beyond the mud stage seems to be able to do it. Not perfectly, for sure, but generally OK.

    Are they just smarter, or do you have another explanation?

  12. Re:And you want government managing healthcare? on FEMA Data Breach Hits 2.5 Million Disaster Survivors (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well said. Corporations, subject to the discipline of the free market, would never ever pfahhahahahahahahaha.

    Sorry, I can't do this.

  13. I know where it went on Microsoft Revived and Killed Clippy in a Single Day (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It looks like you're trying to avoid plummeting into the ground.

    Would you like me to:
        Shove the nose down
        Shove the nose even further down
        Say it was pilot error

  14. Re:FACT on Coders' Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency -- Everywhere (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    X < N < Y

    where:
    N is the number of things you have to do.
    X is the most you can do manually without getting really really bored.
    Y is the number where automating it breaks even in terms of effort.

    But automate it anyway, just in case it comes up again ;-)

  15. And "shill".

  16. An alternative explanation is that they're perfectly legal but they get sick of hearing frothing fat fuckers like you and they decide it's not worth the hassle.

  17. Re:Yay, let's celebrate shitty companies outsourci on US Companies Are Moving Tech Jobs To Canada Rather Than Deal With Trump's Immigration Policies, Report Says (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Those are big and fairly famous. But it doesn't necessarily follow that they aren't shitty, though.

  18. Q: What did c6gunner say when he found some earth in his rice?
    A: It's pliau terra!

  19. Re: so a couple decades to solve an engineering is on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He fucked of to Shpain ages ago becaush the taxesh were lower.

  20. It's not the loonies killing in the name of religion. It's not the fact that people are willing to do long term damage to the public, the environment, or even themselves in the search for short term gains.

    It's shit like this that makes me say sod it. Let the meerkats have a go. Or squid, they're pretty smart.

  21. Re:First things first. Fix the damn leaks! on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Mix a little bit of rust in (there'll be plenty in the abandoned factories soon enough) and sell it to hipsters at a tenner for a little jar.

  22. Re: so a couple decades to solve an engineering is on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this site can be slow sometimes, but it's the first time I've seen a post from 1948.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Re:So, you're saying Scotland is fine, then on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Bollocks. The number of convicts transported etc. was relatively small and there's been more than enough time for numbers to catch up.

    Wales has a small population because it's small and mostly vertical. Scotland has a small population because although it's large it's also mostly vertical and on top of that it's fucking freezing.

  24. Re:First things first. Fix the damn leaks! on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Brighton is hundreds of miles form the coast.

    It's quite close to another one, though.

  25. Re:Perhaps Type44Q is Elon? on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    After all, who else would mention Elon's gwennie other than Elon, himself?

    Rei.